From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 12:10:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from diskfarm.firehouse.net (rdu25-12-043.nc.rr.com [24.25.12.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A36137B424 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 12:10:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from abc@localhost) by diskfarm.firehouse.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA67075; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 19:09:35 GMT (envelope-from abc) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 19:09:35 +0000 From: Alan Clegg To: Caleb Walker Cc: Alejandro Heyworth , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cable modem install.... Message-ID: <20000831190935.A67018@diskfarm.firehouse.net> Mail-Followup-To: Alan Clegg , Caleb Walker , Alejandro Heyworth , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <00083111524402.00252@butthead.walker> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <00083111524402.00252@butthead.walker>; from caleb.walker@home.com on Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 11:50:19AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Unless the network is lying to me again, Caleb Walker said: > RoadRunner is much different than @home. When they came and installed > your cable service they took down the mac address of the NIC that was > on the machine they put it on. They use the mac address to give out ip > address with dhcp. Really all you need to do is take the NIC out of > the machine that they put it on and put that NIC in the machine you > want it to work on. No, they took down the MAC address of the "Surfboard" or whatever device they handed you, *NOT* the NIC in the PC. I've switched ethernet cards quite a number of times since I got my roadrunner service and everything works just fine. AlanC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message